Implicit and explicit receiver training in flat fading channels modeled as finite state Markov processes

Abstract

We study the effect of training method on the receiver bit error rate (BER) performance in constant envelope phase modulation schemes that are transmitted through flat fading channels. Here we propose a novel method for receiver training by sending information bits with unbalanced probabilities. We call this method implicit training and compare it with traditional (explicit) training scheme in which known periodic training sequences are sent to the receiver. The simulation results show superior performance of implicit training where the gain is 2 dB at information rate of 0.15 bits/channel use. Show more